Without really high -
quality synthetic voices on tablets, synthetic rendering also tends to be acceptable more to those who are proficient with screen readers.
The quality
of synthetic voice rendering on tablets and desktops is generally quite poor, for one.
Enhancing the text on the publisher side can also make listening to
synthetic voice readings more palatable to those who might otherwise not consider using them.
Text to speech software, that can read ePub, PDF, DOC, RTF, HTML, TXT documents using
realistic synthetic voices or batch -LSB-...]
Introduced in 2007, Hatsune Miku was a new voice in the Vocaloid software program, a 2004 application that let users type lyrics and melody to
create synthetic voices to sing.
Through the image of a never - setting sun and chorus of
synchronised synthetic voices, the film conveys a sense of being constantly switched - on.
This follows Google's release, along with a team of researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, of findings in December that using WaveNet with Tactotron - 2 neural networks
delivered synthetic voices that sound more humanlike.
In a hotel next door, Aryesh Mukherjee, a physics graduate student at Harvard University, was explaining how he built, with the help of rubber glove - like material,
a synthetic voice box that could imitate a range of birdsongs.
For example, screen readers «adapt» conventional text by converting it into content spoken by
a synthetic voice, thereby making standard text accessible to blind students.
The ability to turn any ebook in to an audio book is amazing even if it's
a synthetic voice.
I've only heard snippets of
the synthetic voice, and I'm not sure if I'll adjust to its patter.
Once enabled through iOS» settings, VoiceOver can now read books and guide blind users through the app's interface using
a synthetic voice.
In their videos and installation work, the artists, who have been collaborating since the 1980s, employ a kind of experimental dramaturgy: stilted and slowed down acting, a recurring cast of amateur actors, manikins,
synthetic voices, and more.
In this two - screen video installation Elizabeth Price brings together disparate elements — text, image,
synthetic voice and a stark, percussive soundtrack — in a dense and complex exploration of collective emotion, performance and mechanised production.
The synthetic voice — created using text - to - voice technology — describes the group's highly ritualised practice, noting that «as sorrow has increasingly become contingent to all public and social affairs, any occasion of significance requires its proper acknowledgement.»
Intended as «a functional copy of that person,» Profile (all works 2016; «Profile» was also the exhibition title) is composed of three unexhibited elements: a full - body photogrammetry scan, audio recordings of the subject made with the intention of producing
a synthetic voice, and a contract that formalizes the subject's surrender of the intellectual property and personality rights belonging to these representational
Text, image,
synthetic voice, and a percussive soundtrack are interwoven in order to create an unsettling, sci - fi narration about a fictional group of professional mourners.
Our synthetic voices are the perfect match for any application that needs to integrate synthesized speech, either on - the - fly or offline.